Monsters do not deserve a megaphone.
I’m all for offering every side of an issue, but handing a national, mainstream media platform to an unhinged Sandy Hook massacre denier like Alex Jones — as Megyn Kelly will do on Sunday — is twisted.
Jones is the ultra-right wing Internet blabbermouth who has spent years pushing insane conspiracy theories on his web empire “Info Wars.” This is the guy who called the horrific 2012 nightmare in Newtown, Conn. a government hoax.
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Hoax? Tell that to the parents of the 20 slaughtered 6- and 7-year olds or the families of the six slain school staffers.
Kelly plugged her interview with Jones on her new show, “Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly” — and has rightly been under fire since.
She justified giving airtime to this loony-tune on NBC (on Father’s Day no less!) by noting that President Trump has praised Jones and appeared on his show.
His show also boasts press credentials to the White House now. Trump and Jones have a gotten chummy over the years thanks to their shared mission to delegitimize Barack Obama’s presidency by claiming with no evidence that he was born in Kenya.
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“Many don’t know him; our job is 2 shine a light,” Kelly, formerly of Fox News, tweeted, defending her decision to let Jones spout his conspiracy theories — including that 9/11 was an “inside job.”
Nice. Well, there are 20 dads in Newtown who won’t be celebrating a normal Father’s Day on Sunday, but will instead be mourning the sickening death of their little ones — all as Jones goes on NBC in primetime to say it was all a government plot to take people’s guns away.
Some places are just too dark to shine a light.
